Something went wrong. Try again later

ZombiePie

To each and every one of you reading this; be kind, earnest, and nice to those around you.

9241 94842 2424 84107
Forum Posts Wiki Points Following Followers

The Community Spotlight - 07/05/2013

No Caption Provided

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always. RYAN DAVIS GOT MARRIED! If you haven't done so already wish him and his wife the best over here! Also...uhhh...there's a fan-fiction of Ryan's wedding already. Don't tell anyone that I directed you to it. http://www.klepekpower.com/ is a secret that keeps on giving with the power of Klepek. Finally a patch was recent submitted to the site related to the notification system. As part of the patch you have to go back to your settings and set them to your preference as they have been reset as a result of this patch. If you are still having issues with the notification or PM system report them over here.

Clip of the Week

Many of you are fans of TurboMan's Best of Quick Look video feature on YouTube. If you are check out the YouTube account TheBurlapLemur which has begun a different but similar video series known as the Bitesize Bomb. This series narrows down the best moments of every single Quick Look ever made and published on the site and here's the latest edition of the series:

Community Activities

  • Official Giant Bomb NCAA 14 PS3 Online Dynasty - Sign Up Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Good news everyone! We now have a complete library for the Famicom Disk System! That and a great biography of what the Famicom Disk System is in the first place. With Patrick starting his own Encyclopedia Bombasticas with Michael Jordan: Cahos in the Windy City read more about the game than you would ever want to know on its wiki page for the game. Finally learn more about LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.

Best of Blogs

Mento has created a two part blog series examining the development and gaming history of Monolith Studios. Similarly stubbleman continues his blog series examining the voice acting career or Karen Strassman. FLStyle has a preview of EVO 2013 and an itinerary of the games that are going to be there, whereas BlackLagoon has a list of all the big and notable games that are coming out for the Vita. Video_Game_King celebrated the Fourth of July with Amnesia and Splatterhouse 2. EpicSteve has another Amateur Bombastica for Godzilla: Save the Earth; Marino has another blog of his VHS tape recordings, but this time for E3 2003. BaconGames discusses why the HD collection of Pheonix Wright on iOS irked him. JJWeatherman shares what it was like building his own PC recently, and enns talks about how flabbergasted he is with the re-release of Final Fantasy XIV. Sunjammer pontificates on what the future of Naught Dog will be now that The Last of Us has been released. ComradeCrash talks about his early impressions of Project X Zone, and Gamer_152 blogged about his thoughts about what the next generation of consoles holds for Nintendo. PsEG had a set back with iRacing.com and talks about it on his latest blog. CornBREDX went back to The Neverhood and discusses why he still enjoyed playing it after all this time. Finally BillytheKid provides an update about his effort to defeat his gaming backlog and ArbitraryWater chastises you for trying to convince him to play Jade Empire.

Fantastic Forums

TepidShark has created a helpful table of the important gaming panels to keep an eye on for the San Diego Comic-Con. If you have played The Walking Dead: 400 Days talk about your choices and thoughts about the game. What have you purchased as part of the Xbox Games on Demand July Sale, or what does you gaming set up look like right now? Talk about it on the respective discussion threads! Finally, in light of the Motorbike and Ride to hell Quick Looks do you have a favorite Quick Look for a "bad" video game? Explain your pick on the thread!

Lovable Lists

The king of lists, Mento, has two different but highly creative gaming tabulations! One examines the games that feature hostile birds that you have to fight and the other lists the games that he would be willing to do his own Bombastica or Endurance Run for.

Useful User Reviews

User Created Podcasts

120 Comments

126 Comments

Avatar image for rafaelmei
RafaelMei

368

Forum Posts

416

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 5

Avatar image for mikeblais
mikeblais

9

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By mikeblais

my short ryan davis story, tucked away on the internet

and what might honestly be the hardest part of all this for me, put into quote form because it's a forum post elsewhere

fuck.....

my little brother and I have listened to bombcasts together for well over a year now. he has anxiety and a learning disability and just a really hard time dealing with life sometimes but he loves the bombcast and giantbomb. it's the only game site he's ever looked at ('cause I RAISE KIDS RIGHT, YO)

ryan was one of his straight up favorite guys and he talked about wanting to meet him at E3 one day and wanting to cover games and DO that because of the stuff ryan would put out on the website and how funny he seemed and how himself he always was

he's at scout camp until sunday and was having a hard time so he called me tonight and we were talking and he said "hey is there a new bombcast? i wanna listen when i come home with you, i miss you"

i don't know how to tell a 12 year old ryan davis is gone.

Avatar image for randomhero666
RandomHero666

3182

Forum Posts

4274

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 2

User Lists: 2

I didn't do this, but @cesson done a lovely pixel art on the FTB server, I'm not sure if Ryan would appreciate being made out of wool or not but he will always bring us laughter and good times, as long as his influence lives on.

^took about an hour to type that, words don't really work at times like this.


No Caption Provided
No Caption Provided

Avatar image for thedeadcomedian
TheDeadComedian

325

Forum Posts

1263

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 2

The saddest Costco trip I've ever taken.

These guys pushed me into studying journalism, for which I can never thank them enough. Ryan Davis helped me choose my major. He helped me choose my college. He helped change my life, and give me direction when I needed it most. I imagine he's had that influence on many others besides me, and he'll never know.

That's the worst part.

Avatar image for cabbagesensei
cabbagesensei

244

Forum Posts

75

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 11

Avatar image for spellbot5000
Spellbot5000

114

Forum Posts

11

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 4

Edited By Spellbot5000

So much goodwill for Ryan out there, they need to make a movie of his life.

I'm getting the ball rolling.

No Caption Provided

Avatar image for crazedjoker91
CrazedJoker91

29

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Avatar image for littleg
Littleg

123

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

I don't know if more "I'm so sad" words are what you're looking for, particularly from someone who hardly gets involved in the community. But I felt compelled to write a blog. Personally I'd love to see them all shared in one place - being able to read what Ryan meant to different people will help put into perspective what kind of guy he was and the legacy that he'll leave.

Avatar image for crazedjoker91
CrazedJoker91

29

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By CrazedJoker91
Avatar image for truthtellah
TruthTellah

9827

Forum Posts

423

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 2

I feel like Jeff's prophecy must come true. In this time of sadness, we will rise up and offer the stupidest things possible in the hopes of bringing even the slightest smile to the crew and community.

In that spirit, I made this dumb/beautiful image as thoroughly described by Jeff in the memorial Bombcast.

In honor of Ryan...

No Caption Provided

Avatar image for deactivated-5e4c09d3ba1b3
deactivated-5e4c09d3ba1b3

1115

Forum Posts

1494

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 1

User Lists: 12

It was hard to get my words onto the paper (or screen, in this instance), but I tried:
http://rmack.tumblr.com/post/55078225284

Avatar image for gbrading
gbrading

3317

Forum Posts

10581

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 34

User Lists: 5

Avatar image for citizencoffeecake
citizencoffeecake

1643

Forum Posts

213

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 3

No Caption Provided

Flying Ryan, what I want to think he is doing. Drew this last night.

Avatar image for polygonslayer
PolygonSlayer

459

Forum Posts

5

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By PolygonSlayer
No Caption Provided

Right, the custom sign was finished this morning, so put the portrait up, and also planted some more flowers :)

A lot of nice blog entries and stuff here guys, really nice to see. :)

Man.. gonna miss the guy :/

Avatar image for jakob187
jakob187

22972

Forum Posts

10045

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 8

User Lists: 9

@zombiepie said:

@jakob187 said:

@zombiepie said:

@jakob187 said:

I vote that the next Community Spotlight is a special edition compilation of Ryan's best moments on the internet...period. Not just Giant Bomb, but across Gamespot, his stupid websites, and every other thing possible.

That's the plan, but there's so many that I'm going to need extra help in tracking down all the stuff that's being written. If every one could spread the word that the next Spotlight will be a memorial to Ryan that would definitely help.

Right, but I'm not talking about community-based Ryan stuff. I'm talking about strictly RYAN stuff. While stuff from the community about/for Ryan is cool, I feel like it's something that feeds the pretention of the community as well. "OOOH, I WROTE SOMETHING SAD ABOUT RYAN RIGHT HERE!" Ya know, it just seems like something that would piss him off.

I'm thinking more along the lines of crazy Photoshopped images, dumb videos with him in them, stuff like that. A memorial for Ryan should be something joyous, not overwrought with sadness and crying. He'd bitchslap every one of us if that's what it turned out to be, and you know it.

We are going to have to agree to disagree at this point. The number of comments and notifications have far exceeded my expectations and providing a Spotlight on community created content is what this feature is for. User created art and videos are something I intend to showcase as well, but if you see the opportunity to do something different, have at it my good friend. There's no right or wrong answer for something like this.

It's all good. I understand.

Avatar image for s-a-n-jr
s-a-n-JR

3256

Forum Posts

2993

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 1

User Lists: 15

Avatar image for citizencoffeecake
citizencoffeecake

1643

Forum Posts

213

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 3

@spellbot5000: it really gets me that Chris Rock is playing Patrick, haha

Avatar image for snail
Snail

8908

Forum Posts

16390

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 1

User Lists: 9

Edited By Snail
Avatar image for d_mac
D_Mac

125

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Avatar image for bleatingheart
bleatingheart

43

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

Edited By bleatingheart
Avatar image for video_game_king
Video_Game_King

36563

Forum Posts

59080

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 54

User Lists: 14

Edited By Video_Game_King
Avatar image for bsmitty1986
BSmitty1986

22

Forum Posts

0

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 0

<- This newbie here wrote this Thank You Ryan Davis

Also, this isn't a picture of Ryan or an art tribute, but some really dumb figure posing I did during my break at work. Iron Man, Queensbury Rules, I post it in hopes that it's something dumb that some of you may get a laugh at.

No Caption Provided
Avatar image for lordandrew
LordAndrew

14609

Forum Posts

98305

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 0

User Lists: 36

Avatar image for mento
Mento

4969

Forum Posts

551638

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 39

User Lists: 212

Mento  Moderator

Still found time for a regular blog this week. It's going to feel a little out of place next to all these obits, though. If anyone's idea of levity is a 2500 word blog about a fourteen year old PC RPG, go have at it.

Avatar image for hailinel
Hailinel

25785

Forum Posts

219681

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 10

User Lists: 28

The next spotlight is going to be amazing.

Avatar image for zombiepie
ZombiePie

9241

Forum Posts

94842

Wiki Points

0

Followers

Reviews: 3

User Lists: 19

ZombiePie  Staff

The latest Spotlight is up here.